Autophagy on Steroids: DRY FASTING
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 18 September 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Let’s talk about water fasting vs. dry fasting. Water fasting is when a person only consumes liquids for a period of time. When a person does dry fasting, they’re not consuming food or liquids.
One of the biggest benefits of fasting is autophagy. Autophagy is a condition where your body recycles damaged proteins and turns them into new enzymes and structural proteins. Autophagy also helps you get rid of pathogens.
Detoxification is just as important, if not more important, in some cases, as getting plenty of nutrients. One of the big purposes of sleep is to detoxify your cells. Fasting, especially dry fasting, mimics a lot of the benefits of sleep.
It’s important to note that about eight to ten percent of the water you get is produced by your own cells, which also enhances detoxification. But, if you drink a lot of water, your body doesn’t get a chance to produce metabolic water.
Dry fasting is essentially enhanced autophagy. Anything you can do to remove extra waste from the body is a great thing, especially for longevity.
Top benefits of dry fasting:
• It can help remove intracellular toxicity
• It can help strengthen biochemical machines
• It can help improve mitochondrial function
• It’s a strong epigenetic stimulus
• It can mimic some of the benefits of a deep sleep
You may want to test out a dry fast and do it gradually to see how you feel. A good place to start would be not consuming any water during a 16-hour fast. Then, when you eat, drink plenty of liquids.
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| 0:00.0 | Now, the one thing that we all know is 100% true is that drinking a lot of water is very good |
| 0:07.9 | for our bodies. And dehydration is very bad for our bodies. We know that. We've been told that |
| 0:13.5 | by everyone. But why is it that when you overwater a plant, it dies. In fact, the number one cause |
| 0:18.9 | of plant death, plants in your house, is overwatering them. We also know that to make a really good wine, |
| 0:25.3 | you have to not put too much water. In fact, certain really good wine makers found that if you don't |
| 0:30.9 | overwater if the plant or the grapevine goes through a short period of no water, the roots will go |
| 0:37.5 | deeper and the flavor of the wine is greater. You have a lot more phytochemicals because that plant |
| 0:42.5 | adapts. And we also know that nutrition is good for our bodies, right? Vitamins and minerals that act |
| 0:48.2 | as cofactors to help all the bile chemistry, the bile chemical reactions in our body to make us healthy. |
| 0:54.6 | But the time restrictive eating, the fasting, also at the same time greatly benefits the |
| 1:02.0 | bile chemistry of your body. And the two main types of fasting is water fasting and dry fasting. |
| 1:10.0 | When you do water fasting, you're basically not eating but you're drinking liquids. When you |
| 1:15.6 | do dry fasting, not only are you not eating food, but you're not drinking water. So that is a |
| 1:21.7 | topic I want to touch on and just explain something that's actually quite fascinating and you may |
| 1:27.1 | want to consider doing a short, dry fast. One of the biggest benefits of fasting is something called |
| 1:35.0 | atophagy. Atophagy is a condition where your body is recycling damaged proteins, okay? And it's |
| 1:45.6 | turning those into new bile chemical enzymes and structural proteins, things like that. |
| 1:53.3 | Like your hair, nail, skin, bones, muscle, etc. And fasting is a potent stimulus of this atophagy. |
| 2:02.3 | Atophagy also helps you clear out intracellular pathogens, microbes, viruses. Very interesting. |
| 2:11.5 | Now, if we take a look at the importance of getting nutrients versus the importance of detoxification, |
| 2:18.3 | they're pretty close as far as benefit to your overall health. And in some cases, detoxification |
| 2:24.4 | might even be a little bit more important. One of the big purposes of sleep is to detoxify |
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